Always You

CHAPTER 5

Saturday arrived earlier than I expected. Lessons kept going very well and I had the opportunity to meet all of my professors. I was having fun with my new friends and I could study during my free time to stay on par with my classmates.

I was getting dressed for going with the others to Hogsmeade. The way to go there was not as long as I thought, we took ten minutes and the first thing we went to was "the three broomsticks". The pub was full of Hogwarts students who were enjoying their afternoon with friends. I saw also Luna, a girl I met during the divination, she was really cool, strange, but cool. She had long blonde hair and deep blue eyes, she was really beautiful.

Everyone took a butter beer, so I did the same. I had never drunk that, and I had to admit that it was very delicious, we stayed there a couple of hours, since we could stay in that town as long as we wanted to. Hermione and Ginny told me every gossip I needed to know, while the boys talked about quidditch and some stuff about school.

When we had finished there, they took me to Zonko, it was a joke shop and it had everything useful to make the perfect joke.

"This one could make Filch jump for the chair, it would be funny as hell." Laughed Ron taking in one hand something I didn't recognize, I wasn't very good at those type of things.

"Hannah, is there something like this in New York?" Hermione asked me, she passed al the week asking me about New York and where I lived. It was nice knowing that she cared about me.

"Not exactly, there is a pub like the three broomsticks but it's not the same, you know, here butter beer is delicious" it was the truth, in New York I had never went to one of these places, much less with a friend.

While we laughed, I saw passing near the shop Malfoy with his friends who were laughing, probably for a joke, but he was serious, he seemed sad.

I was near the shop window and he saw me looking at me and he mentioned a smile, or maybe I imagined it. I immediately looked away, feeling my a bit strange, and I returned to my friends. During the week he didn't do anything wrong and during potions he didn't bother me, but I knew there was something up and I didn't want to trust him at all. Everyone I talked to told me that he wasn't a good person and especially he had a terrible family, so I decided to stay away from him and talk to him only when I needed to, even though he didn't seem as bad and evil as they said.

The afternoon passed beautifully. I was glad I found those people I could talk to and have fun with, even though I knew all of them only for a week. I wasn't used to it.

During that week, in my free time, I spent a lot of time with Dean, he was really nice to me and he made me laugh so much that, most of the time, my cheeks hurt.

He was really genuine, and he seemed a really good guy. I also spent a lot of time with the girls, I could feel they were going to be very important to me.

When we came back to Hogwarts it was dinner time, but I wasn't really hungry, I'm not that type of girl who eat very much, so I went to the Gryffindor common room.

I was almost there when someone grabbed my harm. It all happened very quickly. I was scared because I couldn't see the face at first and I didn't have no idea of who it could be.

When I turned, I saw Malfoy standing in front of me smiling.

"Maybe next time you can smile me back, you know I don't act like this to many people. You can consider yourself lucky" I laughed, I wanted to play his game.

"and why do you act like this with me? You barely know me" I was looking him in the eyes.

"I don't know, it comes naturally" as he said this to me, he came closer. I don't know why but my heart started to beat faster. I didn't care about him, so why I felt like this?

"well..." I cleared my voice "can I do something for you, Malfoy?" I tried to change the subject, in vain because he started saying 

"I'd like you not to have some prejudices about me. I know your friends said something bad about me. But they don't know me at all"

I looked at him confused. I didn't really get the point, but I limited to nod.

He came closer to my ear and even if I wanted to move, I couldn't.

"If you want to know me better, you know where to find me Nolan". As he said these words, he started to go away, towards the Great Hall.

"Good night", I nodded, and he laughed at my reaction to that conversation.

I entered Gryffindor common room, I wanted to stay there, but there were some students and I wanted to be alone, so I went to my dormitory knowing that Hermione and Ginny were eating.

My head was full of thoughts about what had just happened with Malfoy. Why he had to act like this? And with me? Aren't there some Slytherin girls to stay with? Why me? I tried to find some answers to my questions, but I understood that maybe it was better to leave him alone, he wasn't worth it.

I was trying to study something, but I couldn't focus at all. I said to myself not to think about Malfoy's behaviour, but I couldn't help it and I finished thinking about it too much. I had always been like this: I tended to overthink about everything that was going on in my life.

It didn't help when Hermione and Ginny came back from the Great Hall smiling and laughing.

"What is it? What did happen?" I was curious, unfortunately.

"Oh nothing, we found out something really interesting" Hermione was excited, in this week I didn't see her in this way.

"so? What is it?" now I wanted to know.

"we found out that Dean likes you. He knows you have been here at Hogwarts for only one week, but he said that you are very nice to him and you are very beautiful. But he wants to be sure before asking you out" Ginny explained to me because Hermione couldn't do it, she was too excited.

"Oh" this was all I could say. Dean liked me? I noticed that he was watching me during lessons too much, but I thought it was only because he was being nice to me. I didn't want to think about boys this year, yes, he was nice to me all the time and he was very handsome, but I didn't know what to do. Obviously, I didn't want to have a boyfriend. The next year I would have been miles away back to Ilvermorny. It wasn't worth having a boyfriend, knowing I was going to leave in a few months.

"Oh? Is this all you can say? Do you like him?" Hermione was shocked

"Yes, I think, but I don't know if I like him in that way, you know, I don't know him at all. I have been here only for a week."

"this is why you have to know him better, he is very a nice guy, Hannah, if I were you, I could try. He is the boy every girl would like to date because he can be very nice, kind and romantic. You can think about it, you have an entire year. Obviously, you have to act like you don't know nothing, alright? Don't ruin everything. It should have been a surprise"

I nodded Hermione was right.

In this week he had been very nice to me, he wasn't rude, and he wanted to know me better, which I wanted too. There was nothing wrong about that, I could try and see how this will finish. At most we could end being good friends.

I went to bed more confused and I started thinking that there was another person who wanted to know me better, but, on the contrary, it was wrong and I couldn't tell about what had happened to Hermione and Ginny because I know what they would have said.

"Goodnight girls" I said sighing

"Good night Hannah"

"Night Hannah, sleep well"

I tried to fall asleep but all I could do was thinking and thinking. My bad.